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BEAUTIFUL. UGLY. The two sides of art.
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hen we talk about art it seems to have a slippery bar of soap in our hands. It’s a word with the consistency of a bubble. It’s a concept, a value, it’s an estimate, a perception or intuition; sometimes it’s just a remark. Art. It’s intimidating, it can cause admiration, it can reawaken fears, keeping himself company and decorating the thing our attention or just cross our path without being noticed that today we call home. or appreciated. It can create a sense of disgust, repulsion, anger, and this happens because there aren’t objective So what’s beautiful? What can be defined ugly? What has criteria for this kind of evaluation. Art touches the most value and what not? intimate and private parts of ourselves It is not possible to determine with Someone has tried to set the standards that are hardly computable. Art moves certainty what is beautiful and what of beauty. The parameter of perfection our subconscious, it makes us smile or is ugly. has characterized the entire Greek era, cry, it makes us ask for more, like an uncontrollable desire of beauty that we wish it could match where the sculpture was considered as the closest thing to excellence and was taken as a model in all arts. The body, seen with our vision of personal and moral cleanliness. through Greek ideal, is something beautiful and harmonious: its perfect proportions are what made this style the concept Art. What is art? This question goes back of perfection that we also have today. And it’s from the to the dawn of time, in the caves where ancient Greece (5th century B.C.) that the real rules of beauty Neanderthal scratched the stones are born and established worldwide. with mud and the blood of his prey, exorcising his There have been many periods and interpretations of beauty. Beauty as matched forms and materials in Michelangelo’s first works, as the David and the Pietà. Beauty as a challenge, like the flaming gothic cathedrals or the high towers made of steel and glass, built to fight the skies.
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Le Tre Grazie, Antonio Canova